THE NONLINEAR SATURATION OF BEAM-DRIVEN INSTABILITIES - THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

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作者
HEIDBRINK, WW [1 ]
DUONG, HH [1 ]
MANSON, J [1 ]
WILFRID, E [1 ]
OBERMAN, C [1 ]
STRAIT, EJ [1 ]
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[1] GEN ATOM CO,SAN DIEGO,CA 92186
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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS B-PLASMA PHYSICS | 1993年 / 5卷 / 07期
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10.1063/1.860752
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O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
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070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Intense fast-ion populations created by neutral-beam injection into a tokamak can destabilize toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes (TAE modes) or internal kink modes. Experimentally, these modes stabilize when fast ions are ejected from the plasma, producing a cycle of relaxation oscillations about the marginal stability point. A pair of coupled differential equations describes this cycle. This simple theoretical formalism successfully describes the cycles observed during TAE experiments in DIII-D [Plasma Physics Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, 1986 (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1987), Vol. 1, p. 159].
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